Getting Out Of Our Pickle

Molly asks the basic question: How do we get out of this mess? We've got a tiger by the tail in Iraq that we are not going to be able to get away from for generations. And she certainly makes a point about education. She doesn't say anything about it, but it seems to me that with the creationists and IDs running around, we really do need to fix our education system. Somehow, we have developed a nation of active, deliberate ignorance. How do we fix that?